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Biodiesel was first approved for use by the trucking industry in 1998 and is now used in over 600 major US fleets. |
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Every winter, the energy equivalent of all the oil that flows through the Alaskan pipeline in a year leaks through US business and residential windows. |
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Every gallon of gas you burn puts 19 pounds of CO2 into the atmosphere – and the US burns 384 million gallons of gas a day. |
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Americans represent 5% of the world population, but contribute 45% of the world’s automotive carbon emissions. |
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More than 23% of all mammals and 12% of all bird species are considered threatened or endangered, most due to habitat loss or climate change. |
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Sierra Club scientists report that in Los Angeles, the number of heat wave days is projected to increase from 12 up to 95 days per year by the end of this century. |
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A faucet that drips once each second can waste over eight gallons of water per day and over 3000 gallons per year. --EPA |
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Recycling creates six times as many jobs as landfilling. |
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Famous oilman and billionaire T. Boone Pickins says we can get 22% of all our electricity from wind energy – and do it within ten years. |
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Fiber (paper and cardboard) accounts for more than 40% of a landfill’s contents – newspapers alone can take up as much as 13% of the space in US landfills. |
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The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle can run a 100-watt light bulb for four hours (or a CFL for a day!). It also causes 20% less air pollution and 50% less water pollution than when a new bottle is made from raw materials. |
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Every year, each American throws out 1200 pounds of organic garbage that could have been composted. |
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Americans throw away enough aluminum to rebuild our entire commercial fleet for airplanes every three months. |
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Substituting a CFL for a traditional light bulb will keep a half-ton of CO2 out of the atmosphere over the life of the bulb. |
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If every car in the United States carried one more passenger during its daily commute, 32 million gallons of gasoline would be saved every day. |
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The average American uses one 100-foot tall Douglas fir tree worth of paper and wood products each year – and the whole country uses 85 million tons of paper in a year. |
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Recycling a ton of paper saves 17 mature trees, 79 gallons of oil, 7000 gallons of water and 41,000 Kilowatt hours of electricity. |
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Earth Day was thought by some to be a communist conspiracy, as April 22, 1970 was the 100th birthday of Vladimir Lenin. |
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Americans waste 27% of their food — throwing out 365 pounds a year for every man, woman, and child... Even 5% of the 96 billion pounds of edible food tossed out annually in this country could feed 4 million people a day for a year. |
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The cosmetics store Origins has established a recycling program that accepts empty cosmetic tubes, bottles and jars - regardless of brand. |
